Author: John Berryman

The high ones die, die. They die. You look up and who’s there? €”Easy, easy, Mr Bones. I is on […]

God bless Henry. He lived like a rat, With a thatch of hair on his head In the beginning. Henry […]

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink And cannot be arrested and pay no tax And, in general, […]

His mother goes. The mother comes & goes. Chen Lung’s too came, came and crampt & then That dragoner’s mother […]

Down on the cathedrals, as from the Giralda In a land no crueller, and over the walls To domes & […]

I miss him. When I get back to camp I’ll dig him up. Well, he can prop & watch, Can’t […]

Sick at 6 & sick again at 9 Was Henry’s gloomy Monday morning oh. Still he had to lecture. They […]

‘NO VISITORS’ I thumb the roller to And leans against the door. Comfortable in my horseblanket I prop on the […]

Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new: A stale cake sold to kids, a 7-foot weed Inside […]

All we were going strong last night this time, The mots were flying & the frozen daiquiris Were downing, supine […]

He loom’ so cagey he say ‘Leema beans’ And measured his intake to the atmosphere Of that fairly stable country. […]

Henry sats in de bar & was odd, Off in the glass from the glass, At odds wif de world […]

This is the lay of Ike. Here’s to the glory of the Grewt WhiteГўв‚”awkГўв‚” Who has been runningГўв‚”erГўв‚”erГўв‚”things in recentГўв‚”echГўв‚” […]

The weather was fine. They took away his teeth, White & helpful; bothered his backhand; Halved his green hair. They […]

Cedars and the westward sun. The darkening sky. A man alone Watches beside the fallen wall The evening multitudes of […]

A freaking ankle crabbed his blissful trips, This whiskey tastes like California But is Kentucky, Like Berkeley where he truly […]

It will seem strange, no more this range on range Of opening hopes and happenings. Strange to be One’s name […]

The surly cop looked out at me in sleep Insect-like. Guess, who was the insect. I’d asked him in my […]

Bards freezing, naked, up to the neck in water, Wholly in dark, time limited, different from Initiations now: The class […]

‘Oyez, oyez!’ The Man Who Did Not Deliver Is before you for his deliverance, my lords. He stands, as charged […]

And where, friend Quo, lay you hiding Across malignant half my years or so? One evil faery It was workt […]

Our wounds to time, from all the other times, Sea-times slow, the times of galaxies Fleeing, the dwarfs’ dead times, […]

Noises from underground made gibber some Others collected & dug henry up Saying ‘You are a sight.’ Chilly, he muttered […]

Henry in Ireland to Bill underground: Rest well, who worked so hard, who made a good sound Constantly, for so […]

The sunburnt terraces which swans make home With water purling, Macchu Pichu died Like Delphi long ago— A message to […]

How this woman came by the courage, how she got The courage, Henry bemused himself in a frantic hot Night […]

I heard, could be, a Hey there from the wing, And I went on: Miss Bessie soundin good That one, […]

Ill lay he long, upon this last return, Unvisited. The doctors put everything in the hospital Into reluctant Henry And […]

Henry hates the world. What the world to Henry Did will not bear thought. Feeling no pain, Henry stabbed his […]

Spellbound held subtle Henry all his four Hearers in the racket of the market With ancient signs, infamous characters, New […]